National School Walkouts in Queens: What You Need To Know

QUEENS, NY -- Students across Queens will abandon their desks for a symbolic 17 minutes to demand stricter gun control laws in a nationwide protest exactly one month after of Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students with an AR-15-style assault rifle in Parkland, Florida.

A dozen Queens schools - including public, private, charter and some universities - are among the 2,500 educational institutions participating in the National School Walkout at 10 a.m. on March 14, according to organizers from the Women's March youth group EMPOWER.

The students and teachers will march for 17 minutes - one for every student killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School - protesting for gun control laws that would ban assault weapons, mandate background checks on potential gun buyers and allow courts to disarm people who show violent behavior, the organizers said.

Here's a list of official walkouts planned in high schools throughout Queens. Click the links below for more information.

Astoria

• Baccalaureate School for Global Education

Long Island City

• Academy of American Studies
• Bard High School Early College
• Academy For Careers In Television And Film

Jamaica

• Queens High School for the Sciences at York College

Hollis

• Cambria Heights Academy

Fresh Meadows

• Al-Mamoor School
• Francis Lewis High School

Flushing

• The Queens School of Inquiry
• CUNY: Queens College

Bayside

• Bayside High School
• Benjamin N. Cardozo High School

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